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The Conservative party has continued to use misleading figures about “fitness for work” assessments, despite an independent watchdog finding they were potentially misleading. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has been forced to contact the party to draw its attention to […]
Police are investigating claims that a security guard tried to force a disabled man through a metal detector outside a sports stadium, even though he had been told he had an electronic implant and it could cause him serious injury. Oliver […]
The right-wing Reform UK party has published a manifesto that repeatedly threatens the rights of disabled people, suggests it will pose significant safeguarding risks to benefit claimants, and warns of massive spending cuts to benefits and public services. Although the manifesto […]
The SNP has said almost nothing in its manifesto about how it would fight for the rights of disabled people at Westminster if its candidates are elected as MPs next month, five years after its last general election manifesto faced similar […]
Although Plaid Cymru’s manifesto contains just seven explicit mentions of disability in 72 pages, some of those policies would provide significant new rights for disabled people. A key pledge in the manifesto is that Plaid Cymru would push to implement the […]
Kim Marshall decided to stand in the general election because she has already spent most of her life speaking up for those who cannot speak up for themselves, and teaching others how to do that. Although she knows her first duty, […]
Life for disabled people is hard, and getting harder, and they feel “constantly under attack”, according to Liberal Democrat election candidate Richard Whelan. One of his priorities, if elected, would be to ensure that the Equality Act 2010 is properly enforced. […]
The current political system is not designed for disabled people’s inclusion, according to general election candidate Mags Lewis, which is why she is determined to stand and “be seen to stand” at this general election as a visibly disabled woman. Lewis […]
Official documents link two former Conservative work and pensions ministers – including would-be party leader Penny Mordaunt – to a government cover-up of how a disabled man took his own life after being wrongly found fit for work. The email and […]
Three statements made by government ministers on disability benefits – including one by Rishi Sunak – have been found to be potentially misleading by the UK statistics regulator. Of the three misleading statements, one of them was made by the prime […]